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Show r- 'i i i l: t f-st official flight. in tht Mc-ib World lnwt.ituntd t GLd-r.g Tournament began la.-.i Thursday I ar' fra IV a J Hore Point . Bad weather ... , a hampered the first five ditys of compvilion. S photo feature by Hill Davis. Pago Cl. Utnh CongrtiMMmnn K. (iuiin McKay told The TimeH-Imlepon-dent Into Tuendiiy that a llotine-NonnUi llotine-NonnUi t'onleremn comimtltio ro-inntnloa ro-inntnloa nil of tho more than $10 million for Department of Interior projects in Utah approved earlier by tlio Houho but cut by tho Senato. Tht) reiiiMtatement includes $1 million for coiiMtruction on tho LuSal Mountaiy Loop Road near Moab a fund that was almost virtually written off IiimI month w hen tho Senato struck tho amount from the Houno-punNed bill. Also put back wuo $20 million for an oil shale research program authored by McKay. Rep. McKay, a leader of tho House contingent of tho conference committee, said tho panel accepted his recommendutions on all the Senato deletions affecting Utuh. "I'm pleased that all these projtcl8 are now back in tho bill," he said. "Utah's been waiting for some of these for more than two decades. It would be a disappointment disappoint-ment to have all the work finished on the House side and watch it die in the Senate. "All of these projects have justified themselves in terms of need, public support and feasibil- ily. On top of that they are part of a House bill which we brought in Hii)Mtantially below the budget anyway." McKay, ranking member of the House Interior Appropriations subcommittee, which drew up the bill, had added these projects and others for Utuh to tho Interior Department 1979 budget request. The funds deleted from the Senate version of the bill and restored Tuesday by McKay are: $4.5 million for a road connecting Mexican Water, Ariz, and Jiluff, Utah. $3 million for the Mt. Nebo scenic loop roud. $1 million for the LaSal Loop Road neur Moab. $1.3 million for boat docks, ramps and purking and utilities at the Glen Canyon National Recreation Recrea-tion area. $2.00 thousand for the Hawthorne Haw-thorne Perception Park for the Handicapped in Ogden Canyon. $20 million to initiate planning and construction of a surface retorting plunt for oil shale. McKay said the Sun Juan County portion of the Mexican Wuter to Muff road is under construction and that money from the Bureau of Indian Affairs ne.cessary to complete the Indian section has been stalled. "It's fai past time they came up with their share of the money. The officials in Sun Juan County are operating under good faith and the BLA nee-da to honor its commitment to them." He said the Park Service money for the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area will fund construction at three eites: Hite, $900, 000; Halls Crossing, $130,000; and Bullfrog Basin, $195,000. He said the oil shale research money will fund a cooperative government-private industry effort to build a model extraction system for replication by private oil shale interests on a larger scale. The bill as accepted by conferees retains $350,000 added by McKay to the original bill to fund a mineral institute at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. It will become one of three such institutes throughout the nation. Rep. McKay said the bill now returns to both the House and Senate for final action and approval, but he sees little difficulty there. He was also confident in his phoned visit Tuesday that the bill would be signed into law bjr President Carter. |
